'Ameri's Only Gay Televisn Network' Here TV Announc Its First Origal S, 'From Here on OUT'
Contents:
- LOGO CHIEF CHRIS MCCARTHY ON HOW THE NETWORK RETURNED TO ITS GAY ROOTS; WHY BRAVO IS NOT COMPETN
- ‘AMERI’S ONLY GAY TELEVISN NETWORK’ HERE TV ANNOUNC ITS FIRST ORIGAL S, ‘FROM HERE ON OUT’
- THE FOTTEN GAY CABLE NETWORK THAT CHANGED LGBTQ HISTORY
- R.I.P., GAY TV: A NOT-SO-SAD REALY
- LOGO NETWORK UNVEILS 'BIG GAY SKETCH SHOW'
- WHAT’S THE REAL GAY TV WORK?
- 'RUPL'S DRAG RACE' IS LEAVG TV'S BIGGT GAY NETWORK -- NOW WHAT?
- HOW CANADA’S GAY NETWORK RO TO THE RCUE OF LOGO’S DTLA ENSEMBLE DRAMA
LOGO CHIEF CHRIS MCCARTHY ON HOW THE NETWORK RETURNED TO ITS GAY ROOTS; WHY BRAVO IS NOT COMPETN
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“The creria is to feature gay characters primary or leadg rol and not the gimmicky or ual llectn of prsed characters, ic-relief bt iends or serial killers, ” David Btler, then vice print of munitn for MTV Networks, said at the time. The Big Gay Sketch Show Saturday Night Live breakout Kate McKnon and Fear the Walkg Dead star Colman Domgo starred on this sketch edy show, which ran for three seasons between 2007 and 2010. And Eric Leonardo didn’t fd lastg love on this 2016 Bachelor clone, but the show did mark one of televisn’s few gay datg petns.
Rick & Steve: The Happit Gay Couple All the World This 2007 edy followed a group of gay characters—voiced by the lik of Alan Cummg, Wilson Cz, and Peter Paige—via animated Lego-like figur.
When MTV’s siblg gay work Logo first buted the summer of 2005, few uld have predicted the LGBT human rights movement would be where is today. Bh had jt been reelected thanks to an aggrsive anti-gay marriage mpaign.
‘AMERI’S ONLY GAY TELEVISN NETWORK’ HERE TV ANNOUNC ITS FIRST ORIGAL S, ‘FROM HERE ON OUT’
Lou Maletta was termed to get gay life—om porn reviews to polil verage—on TV. Forty years ago, he succeed. * gay tv network logo *
The new gay work seemed like a godsend to many the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr muny. But 2012, after dismal ratgs and few buzzworthy shows, Logo sentially went back to the closet, dchg s gay-centric missn, and promptg Queerty, a popular gay blog, to ask, “Is Logo, Ameri’s first broadst channel for the LGBT muny, gog straight?
THE FOTTEN GAY CABLE NETWORK THAT CHANGED LGBTQ HISTORY
Last week, the Logo work, which was the only gay-foced channel on the block, announced that is officially dumpg s LGBT programmg for more mastream fare. Sadly, the work only lasted briefly and never seemed to get s foothold the muny tried to ter to. Its biggt... * gay tv network logo *
There was a lot of excement the gay muny back then. Chris McCarthy: Logo has been a part of the gay culture.
The gay movement has moved so quickly, ’s probably the fastt movg civil rights movement history. You thk about Obama and Clton havg their first gay bate on Logo.
In 2012 you guys me out wh a statement sayg that Logo will no longer be gay channel, Do you nsir yourself a gay channel now? We are a channel that is born and bread om a gay culture and now that subculture is drivg mass culture.
R.I.P., GAY TV: A NOT-SO-SAD REALY
A new edy program — The Big Gay Sketch Show — buts Tuday night on the gay-themed ble work Logo. The show adds a gay subtext to TV classics such The Honeymooners and The Facts of Life. * gay tv network logo *
We certaly don’t tell anyone else they n’t jo , but we are gay our re. What do you say to crics who say there’s no need for a gay work anymore now that gay culture has been succsfully tegrated to mastream society? It was gog back to our re gay roots.
LOGO NETWORK UNVEILS 'BIG GAY SKETCH SHOW'
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One of the problems that Logo had the begng is the fact that there are so many subsets of the LGBT muny: gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, old, young, urban, ral, whe, black.
WHAT’S THE REAL GAY TV WORK?
They’re not gog after gays, they jt happen to get them. We’re targetg gays.
“The [Real] Hoewiv” don’t have any gay characters.
You want to e and be gay the whole time, we are here.
'RUPL'S DRAG RACE' IS LEAVG TV'S BIGGT GAY NETWORK -- NOW WHAT?
And if you’re straight and you have a gay sensibily – bee no one should be put to a box — you’re wele too. Here TV scrib self as “Ameri’s only gay televisn work, ” a label ’s earned sce Logo TV shifted away om a voted LGBT foc 2012. Today the channel announced s first-ever origal s, “From Here on OUT, ” created, wrten by and starrg Terry Ray (“Gaydar”).
” The seri tak a meta approach, wh Ray playg Jimmy Randall, an agg gay wrer tryg to get his dream project, “Guy Dubai: Internatnal Gay Spy, ” ma. He fally sells the seri to the 18-year-old print of Here TV, but is told he mt hire an openly gay leadg man.
Lou Maletta was termed to get gay life—om porn reviews to polil verage—on TV. 25, 1982, rints of Woodstock, New York, turned on their TVs to fd gay porn airg on their lol public accs statn. The program, technilly a review of gay pornography lled Men & Films, clud a clip of two naked men kissg bed.
HOW CANADA’S GAY NETWORK RO TO THE RCUE OF LOGO’S DTLA ENSEMBLE DRAMA
The ntroversy soon attracted natnal attentn: Playboy and NPR vered the town’s cri to censor Men & Films, and the Village Voice asked, “Do nstutnally guaranteed eedom of exprsn extend to public accs TV shows pictg nsentg gay mal gettg on wh, pardon the exprsn, equally nsentg u?
Men & Films was created early 1982 by gay entreprenr Lou Maletta. On the show, which first aired on Manhattan Cable’s racy leased accs Channel J, Maletta terviewed gay porn stars and reviewed slightly eded X-rated clips om newly released vios of gay pornography. To support his programs, he lnched the Gay Cable Network, one of the first productn pani dited to creatg LGBTQ televisn seri.
GCN shows clud Be Our Gut, a satire of 1950s game shows hosted by drag queen Sybil Bncheon; Candied Camera, a queer variety and sketch show siar to Saturday Night Live; In the Dungeon, an rmatnal seri about New York’s leather and BDSM scene; Sixth Floor Harrison, one of the first scripted gay soap operas on TV; and Gay USA, a news show that offered LGBTQ polil mentary, on-lotn verage of LGBTQ events, and terviews wh LGBTQ artists, activists, and public tellectuals.